The Rick Umali Blog

At the end of lunch, the big bag of potato chips was nearly emptied.

I was admiring myself in the mirror.

While listening to a Top 40 countdown of songs from 1981, the DJs introduced "America" by Neil Diamond.

The New York Knicks beat the San Antonio Spurs to win the NBA Championship this past month.

As I write this, we're about two weeks away from the first game of the 2026 World Cup.

On my long solo drives from NJ to MA, I sometimes get tired and drowsy.

I started a new job recently.

I consider myself an experienced airline traveler.

In 2025, I read 21 books (LibraryThing) and watched 83 movies (Letterboxd) (15 were rewatches).

In the Summer of 1987, I worked in New York City, doing data entry for a printing company (Automatech Graphics Corporation).

I am a right-handed person.

The Bruce Springsteen movie is in theaters and it prompted me to listen to my favorite Bruce Springsteen song: "Thunder Road", from his majestic 1975 "Born to Run" album.

Earlier in the year, I experienced a remarkable moment.

I played a real round of golf last week, after a long hiatus.

I live right next to an H-Mart, an Asian food supermarket.

A year ago I started doing planks.

Ho una moglie e una figlia.

I saw the Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People in a used bookstore, and it made me smile.

I digitized a box of old photographs a few years ago.

The cold weather and heavy snow made a slippery obstacle course in our parking lot earlier this month.

In 2024, I read 24 books (LibraryThing) and watched 48 movies (Letterboxd) (11 were rewatches).

The apartment complex we live in has large dumpster bins that are emptied out by garbage trucks every three or four days.

One evening after work this month I came home and immediately took two Tylenol.

Like so much of the Internet, I reacted with some glee at the pictures from Dwayne Wade's statue ceremony in front of the Kaseya Center in Miami, FL this past week.

One of my favorite albums is "Julio" (1983) by Julio Iglesias.

I now use a pill box (aka pill organizer).